In Foreign Policy magazine's Bad Metaphor Watch, Elias Groll recently wrote about The Tragedy of the Greek Crisis Edition, commenting on the excessive use by international media, of the Greek Tragedy metaphors to describe the current crisis in Greece. As he noted this is a very good cliché, except that "it does little to actually shed light on the nature of the crisis, its causes, or its probable outcome."

Stemming from the above article, Johanna Hanink, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, noted that Greek mythology and classical literature was overly used by international media to describe developments in Greece. In her article Ode on a Grecian Crisis, she pointed that "since the crisis in Greece began, symbols of classical antiquity have framed the dialogue about it.” Even though mythical references like Trojan horses, flights of Icarus, Achilles' heels, etc. give a slightly humoristic touch on reporting on Greece, yet they are not merely innocent. As Hanink wrote, they are often deployed in a way that is misinformed, paternalistic, and condescending.